a Wilderness of Signs
Ethics, Beauty, & Environment after Postmodernism
While postmodernism displaced "grand narratives," it evaded ethics, beauty, and the environment. At its dusk, this collection tackles critical issues for the good of humanity and the non-human world, from global capitalism to extending agency to the voiceless.
While postmodernism displaced “grand narratives,” it evaded ethics, beauty, and the environment. At its dusk, this collection tackles critical issues for the good of humanity and the non-human world, from global capitalism to extending agency to the voiceless.
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A Window on the Italian Female Modernist Subjectivity
From Neera to Laura Curino
These essays explore how women at the forefront of Italian modernity—in literature, photography, and theatre—redefined the self amid societal change, aiming to define a female Italian Modernism complementary to its male counterpart.
These essays explore how women at the forefront of Italian modernity—in literature, photography, and theatre—redefined the self amid societal change, aiming to define a female Italian Modernism complementary to its male counterpart.
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A World Beyond Global Disorder
The Courage to Hope
This collection is a summons to responsible care-taking, and it approaches the subject from an intercultural perspective. The topics covered range from accounts of major global calamities today to explorations of possible political, economic and societal reforms.
This collection is a summons to responsible care-taking, and it approaches the subject from an intercultural perspective. The topics covered range from accounts of major global calamities today to explorations of possible political, economic and societal reforms.
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A World Government in Action
A New Pragmatic Ideology for Global Politics
This volume presents a significantly different interpretation of society and international relations. It highlights the route to release the world from its greatest problems, assure the survival of humankind, and germinate life quality and healthcare for all.
This volume presents a significantly different interpretation of society and international relations. It highlights the route to release the world from its greatest problems, assure the survival of humankind, and germinate life quality and healthcare for all.
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A World in Discourse
Converging and Diverging Expressions of Value
This collection of essays gathers together work presented at the Uehiro Graduate Philosophy Conference in 2013. The contributions reflect the growing influence of comparative philosophy throughout the world, and demonstrate the ever-enlarging boundaries of comparative analysis.
This collection of essays gathers together work presented at the Uehiro Graduate Philosophy Conference in 2013. The contributions reflect the growing influence of comparative philosophy throughout the world, and demonstrate the ever-enlarging boundaries of comparative analysis.
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A World of Innovation
Cartography in the Time of Gerhard Mercator
Gerhard Mercator was the 16th century's most important cartographer, famed for his Atlas and the map projection still used today. This book presents the latest research on his sources, his relationships, and his role in Renaissance cartography and Humanism.
Gerhard Mercator was the 16th century’s most important cartographer, famed for his Atlas and the map projection still used today. This book presents the latest research on his sources, his relationships, and his role in Renaissance cartography and Humanism.
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A World of Lost Innocence
The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen
A World of Lost Innocence charts the psychological journey from innocence to experience in Elizabeth Bowen's fiction, exploring her characters' confrontations with identity, sexuality, and politics.
A World of Lost Innocence charts the psychological journey from innocence to experience in Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction, exploring her characters’ confrontations with identity, sexuality, and politics.
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A World of Popular Entertainments
An Edited Volume of Critical Essays
The first of its kind, this groundbreaking collection examines popular entertainments from a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, considering their social, cultural, and political significance across five continents.
The first of its kind, this groundbreaking collection examines popular entertainments from a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, considering their social, cultural, and political significance across five continents.
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This guide to retiree destinations worldwide is based on research and hands-on testimonies. Hear directly from retirees in Spain, Canada, and Ecuador, and learn what factors to consider. Chapters include destination profiles based on personal interviews with locals.
This guide to retiree destinations worldwide is based on research and hands-on testimonies. Hear directly from retirees in Spain, Canada, and Ecuador, and learn what factors to consider. Chapters include destination profiles based on personal interviews with locals.
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A Wounded Deer
The Effects of Incest on the Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson
What made Emily Dickinson a recluse and dynamic poet? This book argues her enigmatic poetry originated from a personal exposure to incest, and examines how she used her craft to transition from victim to survivor.
What made Emily Dickinson a recluse and dynamic poet? This book argues her enigmatic poetry originated from a personal exposure to incest, and examines how she used her craft to transition from victim to survivor.
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A. D. Hope and the Ambivalence of Modernity
Reconsiderations
How did A. D. Hope react to modernity? What did he prize, what did he dislike, and how did he make use even of what he disliked? This book offers fresh answers to such questions from some of Australia's best-known scholars.
How did A. D. Hope react to modernity? What did he prize, what did he dislike, and how did he make use even of what he disliked? This book offers fresh answers to such questions from some of Australia’s best-known scholars.
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Deriving from the “European Summer School for Process Thought”, this volume explores A.N. Whitehead’s thinking in different fields of science. The first part concerns Whitehead’s philosophical methodology and the second discusses applications for concepts of Whitehead’s thinking.
Deriving from the “European Summer School for Process Thought”, this volume explores A.N. Whitehead’s thinking in different fields of science. The first part concerns Whitehead’s philosophical methodology and the second discusses applications for concepts of Whitehead’s thinking.
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Abdication of the Sovereign Self
The Psycholinguistics of Invalid Synthetic Propositions
Spano looks at how much of our verbal communication can be considered valid from perspective of the rules of logic. The book is a call for introspection in the hope that the reader will recognise the situation described here reflected in both himself and the society he inhabits.
Spano looks at how much of our verbal communication can be considered valid from perspective of the rules of logic. The book is a call for introspection in the hope that the reader will recognise the situation described here reflected in both himself and the society he inhabits.
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Gupta studies the Kashmiri practitioner Abhinavagupta’s two commentaries, Locana on Dhvanyāloka and Abhinavabhāratī on Nātyaśāstra. In particular, she discusses Abhinavagupta’s views on Lollata, Saankuka and Bhattanayaka, with each view followed by relevant criticism.
Gupta studies the Kashmiri practitioner Abhinavagupta’s two commentaries, Locana on Dhvanyāloka and Abhinavabhāratī on Nātyaśāstra. In particular, she discusses Abhinavagupta’s views on Lollata, Saankuka and Bhattanayaka, with each view followed by relevant criticism.
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Abiezer Coppe is one of the most exciting writers of the seventeenth century: a prophetic writer full of passion, fury, wit, and naked sincerity. He is not afraid to speak directly in the voice of God to condemn the hypocrisy and corruption of his era.
Abiezer Coppe is one of the most exciting writers of the seventeenth century: a prophetic writer full of passion, fury, wit, and naked sincerity. He is not afraid to speak directly in the voice of God to condemn the hypocrisy and corruption of his era.
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Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century
They Did Not Come from Nowhere
This book will revolutionise the history of Indigenous involvement in Australian football and cricket in the second half of the nineteenth century. Exploring the emergence and the suppression of their sporting talent, it shows how their successors did not come from ‘nowhere’.
This book will revolutionise the history of Indigenous involvement in Australian football and cricket in the second half of the nineteenth century. Exploring the emergence and the suppression of their sporting talent, it shows how their successors did not come from ‘nowhere’.
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Offering powerful perspectives about legalized termination and reduction, using allusions to cult films and images from pop culture, this text will serve to persuade students, educators, politicians, lawmakers, and community leaders in the debate on abortion.
Offering powerful perspectives about legalized termination and reduction, using allusions to cult films and images from pop culture, this text will serve to persuade students, educators, politicians, lawmakers, and community leaders in the debate on abortion.
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About Face
Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts
How do we represent ourselves and the cultures we live in? To represent the self is to create it. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation from the Middle Ages to contemporary culture through literature, philosophy, and the visual arts.
How do we represent ourselves and the cultures we live in? To represent the self is to create it. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation from the Middle Ages to contemporary culture through literature, philosophy, and the visual arts.
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About The Boys
Stories from the Urban Community
To ease tensions in a Bristol school, seven Somali and African Caribbean boys are brought together. Five years later, the author finds them again, uncovering powerful stories of exclusion, ambition, and success as they approach their GCSEs.
To ease tensions in a Bristol school, seven Somali and African Caribbean boys are brought together. Five years later, the author finds them again, uncovering powerful stories of exclusion, ambition, and success as they approach their GCSEs.
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Abraham Lincoln and the US Constitution, 1861-1865
The Presidential War
This historical account explores the constitutional issues behind Lincoln’s determination to save the Union. It analyzes the complex power game between the branches of government, focusing on how Lincoln used—or misused—the US Constitution in a context of emergency.
This historical account explores the constitutional issues behind Lincoln’s determination to save the Union. It analyzes the complex power game between the branches of government, focusing on how Lincoln used—or misused—the US Constitution in a context of emergency.
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